Mag3,
Ndugu yangu una tatizo moja.
Hasira.
Nakusihi tufanye mjadala wa heshima acha maneno ya hamaki kama
''huyu anayejiita
Mohamed Said...''
Nadhani unajua maana ya maneno hayo na nini yanaashiria.
Mimi sijjiti
Mohamed Said mimi jina hili ndilo nilopewa na wazazi
wangu.
Kwanza ningependa unipatie kwa ukamilifu chanzo (source) cha hiyo
historia iliyoandikwa kwa Kiingereza.
Sasa nami nakupa niliyoandika mimi katika kitabu changu yaani mimi
ndiyo chanzo cha historia hiyo ambayo naiweka hapo chini:
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[TD]It was about this time that Abdulwahid and the TAA leadership approached
Chief Kidaha Makwaia and invited him to the leadership of the Association as president. Abdulwahid told Chief Kidaha that his assumption of the leadership of the African people through TAA would make him a pioneer of change in Tanganyika because all the other chiefs would follow him.
Chief Kidaha was the favourite chief of the colonial government and did not, therefore, accept the invitation. In spite of the statement he had made demanding that African civil servants be allowed to participate freely in politics, which was probably why the TAA leadership invited him to lead the Association,
Chief Kidaha believed in the system of chiefdoms and close cooperation with the British government through indirect rule. He was not the kind of person to jeopardize his position and that of his people by supporting TAA's radical nationalism. He only came to realise when it was too late that he had let pass his only chance of becoming president of Tanganyika's first open political party and probably of becoming the first Prime Minister when Tanganyika became independent in 1961.[/TD]
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[TD]In the
Lake Province in 1950s Mwanza was the most active TAA branch. Its leaders, a Manyema poet,
Saadani Abdu Kandoro and
Bhoke Munanka were in the black books of the colonial administration. Kandoro and Munanka were trying to give support to
Ali Migeyo who single handedly was trying to establish TAA branches around Bukoba.
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[TD]In
Bukoba Migeyo, a senior politician then fifty-three years old, was single-handedly trying to establish TAA branches in
West Lake Province. He was once attacked with three tear gas canisters by the police at Kamachumu while addressing a public meeting campaigning for TAA.
Migeyo was a fiery orator who could easily fire the passions of his audience. On that fateful day he was in Kamachumu preparing the groundwork for TANU and addressing the people, when the police came to disperse the crowd. Tear gas canisters were fired at the crowd and Migeyo was arrested. The colonial government tactically opened charges against
Migeyo as an individual, not jointly charging him with TAA. Iliffe has captured the mood in the Lake Province:[/TD]
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[TD]''The danger-at the height of Mau Mau-was that the unsophisticated militants of the Lake Province might provoke disorder and thereby either break TAA's unity-carrying out a ‘green revolution' against established political leaders such as happened in Kenya, Senegal, and Sierra Leone-or embroil TAA in open confrontation with government, thereby enormously complicating the nationalist task.''
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Dr Lugazia, hailing from Bukoba, had taken special interest to see that his home area was represented at the TANU founding conference. Dr Lugazia therefore took the initiative to send the draft constitution to TAA Bukoba branch. After the arrest of
Migeyo, TAA in Bukoba was as good as dead. Nothing could rekindle the fire left behind by him. An important letter of invitation to Bukoba written by
Dr Lugazia, enclosing the TANU constitution to be tabled at the forthcoming delegates conference in Dar es Salaam, did not receive any attention.[/TD]
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Felix Muganda reflecting the problem in Bukoba wrote to Nyerere to appraise him of the situation: ‘I have called the whole executive leadership of the Buhaya to raise their morale so that they don't despair as a result of what has happened to
Migeyo.'
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[TD]The TAA leadership at the headquarters saw Migeyo's arrest as direct intimidation and harassment of its leaders, given the fact that the people had assembled peacefully for the meeting. The incident was a clear message from Governor Twining that the government was not ready to accept mass mobilisation of the people against the state. Abdulwahid got in touch with Seaton to represent
Migeyo who was standing trial on criminal charges in Bukoba. The TAA Meru Land Case Commitee which was touring the Lake Province at that time went to Bukoba to make on the spot assessment of the Kamachumu incident. Soon after,
Abdulwahid, Nyerere and
Rupia visited
Migeyo's home village Bugandika in April, 1954.
[4] On 14 th April, 1954
Migeyo was imprisoned for three years for holding a meeting without permit from the District Officer. When TANU was founded on 7 th July, 1954,
Migeyo was at the notorious Butimba Prison in Mwanza serving his sentence.
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[1] See G. Mutahaba,
Portrait of a Nationalist: The Life of Ali Migeyo, East African Publishing House, 1969, p. 21.
[2] Iliffe,
A Modern History...p. 510.
[3] Felix Muganda to Julius Nyerere, 18 th August, 1954, TANU 10 CCM Archives.
[4] Mutahaba, ibid. p. 21.
Mag3,
Nimekuwekea hapo juu historia ya baadhi ya wazalendo wa Lake Province na uhusiano wao
na wazee wangu wa Gerezani.
Umelitumia neno ''porojo'' dhidi yangu mara kadhaa.
Naomba nikuulize bado unaamini hata baada ya kusoma hyo ''excerpts'' kutoka kitabu cha Sykes
kuwa mimi naandika porojo?
Si lazima unipe jibu hata ukibakia kimya kama ulivyobakia kimya katika ile ya kuniita mimi mtu
wa ''kijiwe'' kwangu utakuwa umenipa jibu.
